(August 12, 2014 at 7:01 pm)Natachan Wrote: I feel worse about the deer who starve due to them exceeding the carrying capacity of the habitat. I feel bad about the areas that are picked clean, leaving nothing for other animals living in the woods. All due to the removal of apex predators from these areas by human action. I feel incredibly saddened by the wastefulness of this. I feel no sadness or guilt about killing one, eating the muscle, and tanning the hide for later use.
Habitat destruction because of over population of certain animals is very sad indeed. That however does not justify any action you want to remedy the situation, especially when your chosen means is to so completely devalue the animal that you would use it as a commodity. Is disgusting and wrong, it it treating a sentient being as merely a thing, and therefore denying it an intrinsic right not to be used as merely an means to an end. Even more so when there are non lethal options for controlling deer populations
